The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Slayer OF Horne Taken from jail
to Hotel-Two Women Get Into a
Fight at Wake at Americus-Tax
Returns Received from Three More
Counties
GEORGIA.
j. j. Minister, of Athens, has a collection
of 1000 postage stamps, which he will ex-
hibit at the Piedmont Exposition.
f. NJ. Arnau, of Sandersville has a pome-
granate tree with thirty-four pomegranates
on it, This is the first year it ever bore
Albany consumes about 1000 pounds of
ice daily, and it's consumption run up to
1900 during the hot weather OF three weeks
since
Col. George w. Thomas, an old and highly
respected citizen of Sumter county, died at
his residence, near Bottsford on Saturday
evening last.
1t is reported that Undertaken j. j. Clay,
of Macon, who had charge of the burial of
the Voolfolk family, has sent in a bill of
charges of $500.
Bud Veal, who accidentally killed Con-
tractor Horne at Atlanta, has been removed
from the prison-room, which he has occu-
pied since his arrest, to the Markham House,
where he will remain until preliminary
trial can be arranged,
Four miles below Knoxville, last Satur-
day, two negroes fell out while pulling fod-
der. As the rest of the hands returned to
work, the two men Jagged behind and re-
newed the quarrel, when one shot the other,
iniiicting mortal wound.
Some two or three hundred hands engaged
on the Buena Vista and Ellaville railroad
have been on a small strike for the past day
or two, claiming that full wages had not
been paid them for work performed. The
difference has in all probability been settled
by this time and work ON the road resumed
At Albany the river has receded more
rapidly than it rose, yet it is several feet
above the low water mark As soon as it
subsidies sufficiently to show the old piling
between the island and the western bank,
Mr.. Phillips, the superintendent of the gov
eminent barge, will remove them. This
will improve the channel at this point very
much, as they have INSTRUCTED its safe navi-
CATION.
II is understood there will be vacancy
soon in the judgeship Of the County Court
of Spaulding county, the resignation of the
present incumbent being anticipated. There
are already number Of applicants for the
office, or at least the names of several mem
bers of the Griffin bar are being urged upon
the Governor by friends for the appoint
ment. The most prominent of the names
mentioned are Hon. John J. Hunt and
Judge Robert T. Daniel.
bravest that went from Georgia to the Con
federate army, will have reunion and
celebration on Aug. 30, at Grahams Spring,
near Rome The regiment was command
ed at the close of the war by Col. John X.
Towers, now the principal keeper of the
penitentiary. Tho Eighth Regiment par
tlclpated IN some of the bloodiest battles of
the war, and won imperishable renown. 1t
was the regiment that Beauregard saluted
with the words: Eighth Georgia! salute
youi" after battle in which the regiment
lost heavily but turned the tide of battle
Gov Gordon has been invited to make an
address upon the occasion, and has consent
ed to do so.
Tuesday Comptroller General Wright re-
ceived tax digests from the three counties
of Washington, Spalding and Worth
Washington returned 81, Csc, lac, an increase
of $50, 474; Spalding returned 81, 715, 246,
an increase of STOP, 1874; Worth returned
81, 02S, 654, an increase of S57, $40. The COM
bined increase reported by the three coun-
ties amounted to S340, Ss7, which makes the
aggregate increase to date something over
$1l 100000. All the counties have reported
except five, and these are shortly expected.
Floyd county is among the number remain
ing to be heard from, and as there is a large
increase reported there, it is more than
likely that the aggregate for the year will
swell Sl2,000,000,
the curve just north of Yellow Water
creek, near jackson, on Thursday night at
to'clock, while making forty miles an hour,
had four cars including the conductors can
thrown from the track The conductor and
his tiagman were in the cab but escaped
with slight bruises, although the cab tlim-
bled down twenty foot embaukment.
Besides the cab, two coal cars loaded with
pig iron, and one box car were derailed and
the track torn up for nearly half a mile
Early on Friday morning large force of
hands were put to work and before night
the wreck was cleared away, the track re-
laid and the regular schedules resumed
Fast running is said to have been the cause
of the trouble.
IL turns out that Henry Pope, the negro
who was arrested, convicted and sentenced
to be hung for assaulting Miss Kendrick, of
Chattooga county, is the wrong man. If
Gov. Gordon had not respted him an inno-
cent man would have been hung. Judge
Maddox, the presiding judge of that circuit,
has just come from Summerville, the
county seat of Chattooga county. From
hun 1t is learned that negro from Walker
county, who fed to Somerset. county, Ken
lucky, has been jailed. The negro was
working on the Rome and Decatur railroad
near where the deed was committed Feb 3.
the very day the heinous crime occurred
The negro has admitted his guilt TO the au-
thorities of the Jail requisiUion has been
forwarded and he will be brought to trial
Two or three months ago an unknown
white man was found hanging by the neck,
dead, in an old barn in Ben Smiths district,
Gwinnett county. The deceased was evil
IDENTIFY German from the appearance of
his features, and it was reported at the time
that 1t was Charles Shuhardt, of Athens,
who had been in that vicinity a few days
before buying up cattle. But Shuhardt
turned up all right. The corpse was buried.
No one has ever been found who knew any
thing of the dead man, and neither have
any inquiries been made about him. Re
Gently, however, a story has leaked out that
this hanging was not suicide, as was at
first supposed, but that the deceased was
revenue inforfner, who met his death at the
hands of outraged moonshiners There is
said to be at least four illicit stills near
whore this deed was committed.
On Monday last a negro of Americas,
prominent in the colored social circle of his
neighborhood passed peacefully away, and
that night the "sisterin" went over TO the
house of the deceased TO sit up with the
corpse About midnight, while they sat dis
coursing upon the many virtues of the
late lamented, the deep stiffness being
broken only by the occasional escape
of an Unsurpassed sob, one of the
number made remark that in